Joint workshop with students and researchers from Düsseldorf (HHU), Kyoto (DWC), and Munich (LMU). Time: 9 am to 1 pm (Germany) / 5 pm to 9 pm (Japan) (including a break) Place: Zoom For more information, please check the announcement here. Registration: Please register for this workshop until January 5, 2022! LMU students at a.wiemann@lmu.de...
A leading figure in world cinema, director Kore-eda Hirokazu (b. 1962) is particularly well known for his fine-grained portrayals of families. Actress Kiki Kirin (1943-2018) played significant roles in six of his family-focused films—beginning with Still Walking (Aruite mo aruite mo, 2008) and ending ten years later with Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku, 2018). Tapping into widespread anxieties in Japan that...
In Ihrer Kurzgeschichte Satsujin Shussan (2014) beleuchtet Murata Sayaka wie Gesellschaft und Staat mit Themen wie Liebe und Sexualität in Verbindung stehen. Sie wählt diese Themen jedoch lediglich als Rahmen, um das Spannungsgefüge zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft anhand von Sexualität und Fortpflanzung zu thematisieren und zu fokussieren. In diesem Vortrag werde ich die Kurzgeschichte Satsujin Shussan mit...
As the world urges energy transition towards decarbonisation, it is expected that the cities and regions dependent on fossil-fuel related industries will be greatly affected by the transition. In particular, coal phase-out gives tremendous impacts on the coal industries, workers, and local communities in the coal-producing regions. How can those regions and communities overcome the...
Um 15 Uhr in Raum 115 in der Oettingenstraße 67.
Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging workforce have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major reforms....
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Der japanische Buchclub trifft sich wieder am Freitag, dem 24. Juni 2022 um 15 Uhr in Raum 15. Thema: "Heaven" von Kawakami Mieko. Interessent*innen sind herzlich eingeladen!
Herzliche Einladung an alle Studierenden zum Japanisch-Englischen Fun-Sprachtreff am Samstag, den 2. Juli 2022, von 10 Uhr bis 11.30 Uhr! Außerdem eingeladen sind Studierende der Kwansei Gakuin (Kobe) und der Oxford University. Wir werden zu verschiedenen Spaßthemen im Wechsel Japanisch und Englisch diskutieren. Wir treffen uns online auf der Plattform Wonder (läuft am PC über...
Abbildung: Activist attaching a peace message to the fence of Camp Schwab On May 15, 1972, two decades after the main islands of Japan regained full sovereignty, the Ryūkyūs were released from US administration, and Okinawa prefecture was re-established in the Japanese state. Fifty years after the so-called “reversion” (fukki) took place, grave imbalances between Okinawa and other prefectures continue to persist: Okinawa is...